Hello there, First of all, congratulations about Epiphany 3.4, that I really like it, specially on full screen mode, with hidden control bar. However, I am a bit concerned about the future of Epiphany, as I don't see it to make any impact, not even on small Distros. While Gnome Developers do amazing things on Shell & Boxes, it seems that they ignore the most important piece of a complete OS, the web-browser.
I realize that Epiphany wants to be a simple and lightweight browser, but it ends up as a poor featured browser, unusable for web surfing. To be honest, I am not quite sure if Epiphany would catch up with Chromium & Firefox in the near future -if ever, and that makes me to wonder if there is a purpose of existence for this project. Well, you all know the critical importance of a web-browser, that nowdays maybe is the browser that defines the OS, and not the OS that defines the browser - and by browser I mean the whole browser/internet experience. Bringing on my mind some aspects .. - Web Browse isn't a menu based App, not quite a need for GTK Widgets - Clutter, Mutter / Shell are very closed projects - Gnome Devs are doing Clutter - There is already a Clutter webkit - Shell manages the Desktop - Google's native client approach ..I have this "maybe" is time for a Clutter based web-browser. A full screen, (silent until you use it) web-browser that will run always on the top of the Desktop, a browser that even could handle Desktop wallpapers (with online Sync), and a browser that would run HTML5 apps as a widgets on your Desktop. Can you imagine the possibilities and the advantages on this approach (rhetorical question)? I think that you own the infrastructure, and you are willing to do innovative eye-candy things :) Thanx, - alex
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